A boy performs a masked dance as he participates in a parade during the National Encounter of Mask festival in Barva de Heredia October 30, 2015. (Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters)
A Palestinian woman paints a mural, depicting a masked Palestinian holding a knife, in support of Palestinians committing stabbing attacks against Israelis, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip November 3, 2015. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
A girl reacts as she receives polio vaccine drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
An internally displaced girl stands on an abandoned railway tracks beside a makeshift refugee camp in Sinjar town, in Idlib province, Syria November 20, 2015. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)
A man smiles as he carries firewood he bought on a street amid ongoing fuel and cooking gas shortages in Yemen's capital Sanaa December 2, 2015. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
A flood-affected couple sits along a flooded roadside under a picture of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in Chennai, India, December 6, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
A tribesman loyal to the Houthi movement carries his rifle as he leaves a gathering held to show support for the group, in Yemen's capital Sanaa December 15, 2015. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
Tourists watch the sunrise and pray outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses, near the city of Saint Catherine, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt, December 9, 2015. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)